Just wanted to say congrats on winning POTY 2012 Deep Thought. You got my vote, I was truly impressed by the great transition of this from the mobile space to our little old graphing calculators. The controls were a stroke of genius and everything else was top notch. I dont know if I said this on RS but well done! You deserve all the praise that you have got not only from us but from others around the web.

Thanks Madskillz The game was hella fun to program too.

Well the sprites stop animating once 'sliced'. It should be possible to slice the sprite on the fly, though only if DT feels its necessary/worthwhile.

I hadn't actually thought of that. Slicing the sprite on the fly wouldn't be a bad idea at all—it would just take slightly more time while the fruit is being sliced, which wouldn't really affect the game.

A bigger issue is that the program has two display routines set up—one to display a 16x16 rotating sprite, and one to display a 16x8 static sprite (which handles sliced fruit as well as combo messages and the big X that appears when a fruit is dropped). Fruit sliced at an arbitrary angle would be a static 16x16 sprite which would mean another display routine.

Though now that Axe has a Pt-And( routine, I can use it to speed up the game by almost 200%, which would give me a lot of room for new features...

Huh ? What can be the use of Pt-And here ?

To draw sprites?

What kind of new features, hmmm?

Exactly what leafy said. The sprites are white-on-black, so I currently use Pt-On( and DrawInv to draw the sprites.

That single DrawInv statement takes up almost half the time it takes to draw one frame.

What have you done DJ_O

And why did I first read that the poster of that would be Stefan Bauwens?

On a semi related note, I might have found a bug in Fruit Ninja, unless it was mentionned before: As long as you swipe the keyboard, no fruit will appear.

but you won't get any points if you continuusly swipe the keys to make it easier